Background
OBRAZTSOVA, Yelena was born on July 7, 1937 in Leningrad.
OBRAZTSOVA, Yelena was born on July 7, 1937 in Leningrad.
Leningrad Conservatoire (under tuition of Professor Grigoriye).
Azucena, Carmen, Leonore (Donizetti’s Favorite), Charlotte (Massenet’s Werther), Cherubino, Marina (Boris Godunov), Marfa (Khovanshchina), Helene (Prokofiev"s War and Peace), Dalila, Jocasta (Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex); Comtesse (Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades), Amneris, Ulrica (A Masked Ball), Eboli (Don Carlo), Konchakovna (Prince Igor), Lyubashka (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride), Oberon (Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream; also song-cycles by Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Schumann, and oratorios by Bach and Handel.Attached to Staff, Moscow Conservatoire. Glinka; debut as Marina (Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov) with Bolshoi 1964-1965 and thereafter became soloist with the company Many international appearances including: Sofia, Brno, Prague (National and Smetana), Marseilles, Paris, Wiesbaden, Berlin (Komische Oper and Staatsoper), Budapest, Milan (Louisiana Scala) 1976, Rome (Caracalla), Monte Carlo, Bucharest, Majorca, Barcelona, Kiev, Leningrad, Moscow (Bolshoi and Stanislavsky), Tbilisi, San Francisco, Metropolitan 1975, London.
Married M. Makarov.